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The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians. ”
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. ”
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. ”
Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on human experience. ”
It's very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there's no restaurant that you have one cook and one chef and nobody else in the kitchen. Generally you have five, ten, 15 people with you. So that's really important is to train them right, but first you have to hire the right people. ”
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. ”
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice. ”
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity. ”
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. ”
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. ”